Electric fan



April 1, 1952 c. A. LINDBERG ELECTRIC FAN Filed Aug. 4, 1947 Patented Apr. 1, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELECTRIC FAN Carl A. Lindberg, Toledo, Ohio Application August 4, 1947, Serial No. 765,939

3 Claims.

This invention relates to advantageous'features in manufacturing and range of acceptable operation for electric fans.

This invention has utility when incorporated in alternating current induction motor portableelectric fans, as for household and omce uses. More particularly there is a clamp mounting strap for the motor stator, with an adjustable angle sound deadening support connection therefor. The cooperative sound deadening features extend to a ventilating fan for the motor windings, which ventilating fan is in a dome central region from which the main fan blades radiate. A dome or cup shaped housing for the motor on the motor mounting strap has its open end with slight clearance as to the rotatable dome in which the ventilating fan is located. Ventilation clearway thru the motor is achieved by fewness of parts or brackets providing the bearings for the rotor from the stator, which mounting extends to include a guard for the main fan.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. .1 is a front view, with parts broken away, of an embodiment of the invention, say in a 10" diameter electric fan;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, looking from the right at Fig. 1, with portions removed;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III--III, Fig. 2, showing the sound deadening mounting adjustable bracket and the motor shaft bracket connection to the stator;

.Fig. dis a partial view on the line IVIV, Fig. 2, showing in plan part of the bracket from the stator to the rotor at the shaft end remote from the fans;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail of a modification showing the stator of a two-pole motor, as distinguished from the four-pole showing in Fig. 3; and a Fig. 6 is a detail view in plan on the line VI-VI, Fig. 5, of the bearing bracket for the two-pole motor rotor.

The motor mounting Adhesively attached felt pads I may be under a base 2 from which rises an arm 3 in which a horizontal opening eye 4 is provided. snugly in the eye 4 (Fig. 3) and projecting therefrom is a rubber or plastic tube 5. Upon its protruding end portions compressible rubber or plastic washers 5 space parallel strap ends 1. Openings 8 in the strap ends I have a bolt 9 connection thru the tube or sleeve 5. The operation of a wing nut ID on the bolt 9 may act upon the compressible means 5, 6, to develop suflicient frictional I from the support to be maintained. Furthermore, with entire absence of metal against metal at this adjustable angle mounting, there no transmission of noise therethru to or from the fan.

A strap loop II forms a clamp connection between the ends I. This clamp is adjusted by bolts I2, I3, at the parallel end portions I, for effecting binding assembly of this clamp as embracing means about a field core or laminated stator Id of the motor.

The motor assembly Bolts I5 extend thru the stator It to mount a Therebeyond, the shaft 23 passes thru a second similar self-aligning or spherical bearing 22 (Fig. 4).

The stator I4 has four poles 23, 2 3, 25, 26, and a pair of coils 2'7, 28. A line connection 29 places these coils in series, with electric current supply connections or leads 39, 3 I, therefrom.

The stationary housing A bullet shaped housing or shell 32 has an open I end 33 adapted to slide over the clamp strap loop I I. The open end 33 has a notch 34 to clear the arms or strap ends 7, and additional notches35 to clear mounting of a guard for the main fan.

Press pins 36 thru the housing 32 at clearance regions 31 in the stator, anchor the shell 32 with the motor.

Motor ventilation Thru the respective poles of the stator and spaced radially outward from the inner ends thereof ,are pins 38 which hold the field windings 21, 28,from sagging inward too close to the rotor 2 I. Besidesthis clearance and the clearances 37. thru the stator I4 there are clearance regions 39 outward from insulation 0r fiber sheet portions 40 which hold the end portions of the winding coils radially outward. In the provision to have the small motors more eflicient and readily selfstarting, shading coils 4| have magnetic wedges 42 to bridge between the inner faces of adjacent poles.

The housing shell 32 has lateral ports 43 (Fig. 2). The motor shaft 20 in its extent beyond the bearing I9, has fixed therewith by a set screw 44 a hub 45. Fiber or sound insulation washers 45 at a shoulder 41 on the hub 45, have therebetween a disk hub 48 from which a set of four vanes or somewhat concaved wings 49 of a ventilating or minor fan extend. These fan wings 49 are so pitched relatively to the open end 33 of the housing 32 as to draw air in thru the housing ports 43, and about the rotor and coils. Notwithstanding this positive ventilation, motor noises therefrom are effectively suppressed, thru the sound deadening mounting of the minor core or ventilating fan 48, 49, at the washers 46. Such motor hum or vibrations as might be developedytoward or from this minor fan source, have resonance therefrom efiectively quenched by theadjustable mounting 5, 6.

The main fan Press fitted on an extension 58 from the hub 45 as from the shoulder 41, and to pack the washers 48 and the disk 48 snugly against the shoulder 41, is a dome providing housing for the ventilating fan 48, 49. The dome 5| provides symmetrical housing continuation from a ventilation fan spill gap 52 about the housing 32, open end 33. A press button 53 axially of the shaft 20, may have its stem supplement the anchoring of the dome 5| with the hub 45. From inner larger diameter open end 54 of the dome 5!, there is shown a radial series of four pitched fan blades 55.

The fan guard The bolts l5 serve not only to assemble the rotor carrying bearing brackets IE, IT, but protrude forwardly beyond the bracket l1. Besides rivets 55 to assemble the desired number of laminations in the stator 14, nuts 5? on the bolts 15 provide additional clamping means in the stator assembly. However, beyond the nuts 5'1, the bolts 15 pass thru U-loops 58 of diverging support arms 59, at the notches 35, outwardly anchored across guard rings 60, 5|. The loops 58 and-the bolt openings thru the stator and the brackets are aligned seats for the bolts l5. Nuts 62 at the bolts [5 look the loops 58 against the nuts 51 and establish rigid assembly for the fan guard. Supplementally to the support arms 59, the fan guard is herein shown to omprise parallel wires 63 in a vertical direction with medial reinforcement by horizontally extending wires 64 having diamond spread region 55. The respective wires have bow regions 66 (Fig. 2) spacing the parallel rings 60, 6 I efiectively distributing the reinforcement. and guard values peripherally as well as for the blade front region, and this without detracting from maximum air volume to be delivered by the fan.

Hum or other noises which may arise from the air currents thru the guard, as well as sounds from the motor, which seemingly might be objectionably transmitted thru the bolts l5 effecting the unitary mounting thereof, have not been' found to perform objectionably even as to major or minor fan noises of the main fan and the ventilating fan. This quietness is attributed not only to the washers 45, but to the mounting 5, 5. On volt 60 cycle current a 10" fan running at approximately 68 watts with room termperature 31 C. and while operating continuously in delivering 750 cu. ft. of air per minute, the temperature rise at the motor has been under 37 C.

According to service conditions to be met, there may be ready modification in the motor, as by increasing or decreasing the number of laminations in the stator l4, with avoidance of cost increase. A two-pole stator 51 (Fig. 5) may have in the bracket oiTset l8 a bracket 58 mounting metal oil impregnated disk 59 (Fig. 6) about a bearing bushing 15 for a motor shaft H. A convenientto-grasp push button switch 12 projects from the sheet 32 and controls current supply from wires 13, 14, to the leads 39, 3|.

What is claimed and is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An electric fan comprising a motor-having a stator and a rotor, bracket means from the stator providing bearings mounting the rotor, a

clamp strap embracing the stator and having integral therewith parallel radiating arms, a base having an eye extending between the arms, a clamping bolt thru the arms and eye, and sounddeadening spacing means between the arms and: eye isolating the bolt from direct contact'with the eye.

2. An electric motor stator, a stator-embracing} strap having ends thereof forming arms inparah, lel radiating from the stator, said arms having; openings therethru in alignment, a bolt, a sup-j, port having an eye between the arms, said eye having a larger diameter than said" bolt, said= bolt extending thru the openings and eye, and. sound deadening means spacing the bolt and arms;

from the eye.

3. An electric fan having a stator, a rotor,-bearing brackets on opposite sides of the stator for" mounting the rotor, a fan fixed with the rotor. assembly bolts thru one bearing bracket, the

stator and the other bearing bracket and extend.; ing therebeyond toward and with clearance relatively to the fan, a fan guard, and nuts on the bolts mounting the guard in said clearance.

CARL A. LINDBERG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Humphreys Dec. 1, 1942 

